Our mission is to build scalable, secure, infrastructure for hundreds of geographically distributed microservices. The software provided by the Traffic team is essential for reliably serving customer traffic and facilitating service-to-service RPC. You will report to the lead of the Traffic team.

You Will:

• Develop an Envoy-based service mesh made up of both cloud and on-premises applications.
• Develop reliable, important software-based L4 and L7 edge proxies.
• Provide seamless service discovery for every application at Square whether in the cloud or on-premises.
• Use our service mesh to empower product developers with features like intelligent rate-limiting and circuit-breaking for preventing cascading failures.
• Contribute to the upstream Envoy project.
• Participate in a team on-call rotation.

We believe that a well designed production environment can be simple and beautiful. We are looking for experienced engineers with a passion to build reliable infrastructure.

You Have:

• 3+ years of software development experience in Java, Go or similar. C++ experience a bonus.
• Experience building, operating and maintaining low-latency, reliable services.

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.